Cabbies here complain their take-home pay is thinner than it used to be. Trucking companies across the country are making drivers slow down to conserve fuel. Filling station owners plead that really, really, the skyrocketing prices aren't their fault.

Richard Montgomery High School Principal Moreno Carrasco, currently under investigation by the school district for running a side consulting business on school days with allegedly plagiarized materials, is on indefinite sick leave for an unspecified illness.